Do you have a minute to spare to learn some English? Roy’s ready to reveal the difference between continuously and continually. Give us 60 seconds and we’ll give you the English.
Continuously vs continually
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Both continuously and continually are adverbs, but they have different meanings.
Continuously
Continuously means that something ‘doesn’t stop or end’.
- He spoke continuously for 15 minutes.
- Trains run continuously until midnight.
Continually
Doing something continually means ‘doing it repeatedly over a period of time’. The activity starts and stops many times over a particular period – a week for example.
- I continually tell my dog I love her.
- They continually argue, fall out, make up and then fall in love again!